Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I am a big fan of the new PostGIS 1.4.0 (and also of Paul Ramsey) . I always have troubles installing PostGIS in ubuntu so I thought that this time I was gonna document it and blog it here. So this is just a log of the steps required to install it on an EC2 instance with Ubuntu 9.04. I hope it can be useful for someone else.

#add the repository (fetches pgp keys as well)sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable#change the postgres password to "atlas" so that you can later loginpsql -c"ALTER user postgres WITH PASSWORD 'atlas'"

What is this?

This blog was created to compile all different "experiments" the authors do related to Biodiversity Informatics. Main topics have to do with UI, GIS, Grid technology, Computing in the cloud, Scalable architectures, RIAs, Web services, public web APIs, standards and so on and on... We look forward for your comments and feedback!